Nginx proxy manager Is what I use to view OMV over the internet.
Tailscale. Can be run as a docker container, and does not need an open port in the router.
Or wireguard, available as an OMV plugin. It requires to open a port in the router.
Thanks for the ideas... can I ask for a clarification? The above tools, lets say the power goes out and my pi gets rebooted if I set it up using one of the above tools would they reboot automatically along with OMV and be ready to go?
Just looking for the most fool proof way, as I might be half way across the world at any given time.
That depends on how you set it up
Let's say you have 2 servers (1 and 2, with 2 being the remote backup)
If you mount the drives from server 2, on server 1 so you can run your backups "locally"... Then you would have a serious problem in that scenario as it's likely the data would start writing to the local drive, and if you have a smallish OS drive, it will fill the OS drive and cause issues (rogue rsync jobs have filled more than one OS drive in similar scenarios here in the past). So I wouldn't mount remote shares locally to do this (at least with rsync).
If you're actually connecting server 1 to server 2 (say, with rsync or Syncthing).. well, if the server goes down, the job can't run, so it just won't run. So, say you have Server 1 acting as your client, and Server 2 as your backup server, and it basically backs up instantly (like most syncthing servers). If server 2 goes down and you make changes to server 1... when Server 2 comes back up, the two of them should auto reconnect, and they will sync. If you're "scheduling" syncs as I do, and Server 2 goes down.. then that day will just get missed unless you manually run a sync. This doesn't particularly concern me as the remote backup I use is a "backup of a backup" if you will.
I don't really know how Borg works, but the above pretty much breaks down rsync and Syncthing.
You can avoid reboots and down time caused by power surges or outages by using a UPS, for example APC BE600M1, for BOTH the NAS and the Router.
OMV6 has a great plugin/extension to monitor the UPS status and health via USB, called "openmediavault-nut". At least on my system it runs just as smooth as the "openmediavault-wireguard" plugin, and both were very easy to setup.
Would timescale or wireguard achieve all of the above?
Wireguard does all that and it's very simple, just install the plugin, create a tunnel and a client and scan a QR code with your phone. https://wiki.omv-extras.org/do…v6:omv6_plugins:wireguard
Wireguard does all that and it's very simple, just install the plugin, create a tunnel and a client and scan a QR code with your phone. https://wiki.omv-extras.org/do…v6:omv6_plugins:wireguard
Thanks, I will check that out today.
Wireguard is available for all platforms, inclusive Android and Windows, and of course Linux.
At least 5 of your goals should be feasible with wireguard, can't comment on FreshRSS. But if it runs in an OMV docer container then you can access it via regular OMV browser GUI.
Just try it out, it's really simple and nicely integrated into OMV, and chente posted the link to the manual.
When abroad and on the phone, first turn on wireguard, and then you can access OMV with the browser via the same IP address. In X-plore you can access the SMB shares under "LAN", after adding the IP address of the OMV server. I just tried it out and it worked for me.
Under Windows it should work the same, but I haven't tried it out because my work laptop is very restricted.
I am stuck at a step atm with instructions I don't find clear or counter to each other.
"Persistent keepalive By default it is disabled. Set a value, such as 25, so that a hello is sent through the tunnel every 25 seconds.
Activate only if necessary for some reason. One of wireguard's security principles is to be silent on connections."So at first it says to set the value to 25 and then right after that it speaks to only activating if needed as wireguard likes silent connections... Which is it?
Don't set that value if you don't need it for some reason. The easiest thing is to leave the default configuration and check its operation. If after that you need something else look for what you need.
I log onto my pi with the terminal on my laptop via "ssh pi@ip address"
Btw, OMV6 has the "WeTTY" extension, you can ssh to your pi right from the OMV browser GUI, no need for a separate shell.
And there is also file manager extension called "openmediavault file browser", you can use it right from the OMV GUI.
Enjoy Turkiye!
OMV6 has the "WeTTY" extension
Not available for arm, cannot be installed on Raspberry.
Thanks, didn't know that...
Tailscale. Can be run as a docker container, and does not need an open port in the router.
Or wireguard, available as an OMV plugin. It requires to open a port in the router.
You can install Tailscale directly in the OMV. This is what I use.
You don't need Docker for one package.
There shouldn't be any difference. There is nothing different to do than what you usually do locally.
Clicking on the network folder in linux while remote and logged into wireguard does not bring up a option for my NAS like it does locally.
I do not understand this. What does this mean exactly? Can you explain it better?
assuming you use a file manager like Dolphin, please enter manually into the address bar (while remote):
"smb://<IP address of OMV server>"
Then the SBM shares that you set up should be shown...
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